Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University

Jordan Tama is Assistant Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service and Research Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. Dr. Tama is the author of Terrorism and National Security Reform: How Commissions Can Drive Change During Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and he has published articles about U.S. politic...

Donald R. Wolfensberger is director of the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a position he had held since June 1999. He first came to the Wilson Center in February 1997 as a guest scholar where he wrote the book, Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Prior to that he worked for 28 years as a staff me...